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Replication Data for: A decline in the social status of the working class? Conflicting evidence for 8 Western countries, 1987-2017

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Title Replication Data for: A decline in the social status of the working class? Conflicting evidence for 8 Western countries, 1987-2017
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N3DG91
 
Creator Oesch, Daniel
Vigna, Nathalie
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The consensus view among political scientists is that the subjective
social status of low-skilled workers has declined over the last decades,
and this status loss of the working class is seen as contributing to the
rise of the radical right. We examine the micro-foundation of this claim
by tracing the evolution of subjective status for different social classes in
Europe and the US. We use all available survey rounds of the ISSP 1987-
2017 and replicate findings with the ESS 2002-2016. While unskilled
workers perceive their status to be lower than members of the middle
class everywhere, we find no relative or absolute fall in their subjective
social status over time. Unskilled workers were at the bottom of the
status hierarchy in the 1990s and 2010s. Our findings throw doubt on
the narrative that sees workers’ falling subjective social status as a
prominent driver behind the rise of the radical right.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Vigna, Nathalie